My love of exercise led me to pursue an undergraduate degree in Kinesiology and a graduate degree in Physical Therapy. After starting my career in Physical Therapy, my husband and I quickly decided to start trying to have a family. We struggled to conceive for many years and pursued infertility treatments. Getting pregnant was a challenge, but staying pregnant was also. I suffered from severe preterm labor and was hosptilaized for much of my pregnancies. Thankfully, we are blessed to have 3 amazing daughters. While our daughters were young, I began to struggle with feeling cold all of the time, hair loss, dry skin and lack of energy which ultimately led to a diagnosis of Hypothyroidism. I was relieved to have an “answer” and thought the treatment would take care of everything. Symptoms were relieved for awhile and yet others began to appear: headaches, joint achiness and pain, fatigue, etc.
